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Not quite, but this plasma bubble would be the next best thing.

We’ve been working on moving (we still aren’t there, but we’re getting closer) into my mother-in-law’s house (she’ll move into our condo) and so my schedule has been disjointed. Hence the lack of photos of the day for the past week. I’ll try to resume normal photoblogging this week. For the two of you who …

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Well, it won’t get shiploads of sleeping colonists to the stars, but it may save lives–if it works in humans like it works in pigs.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, Tom Pearcy cut this maze in a cornfield on his farm near York in northern England.

That’s what London scientists are forecasting. Hey, maybe we can get a cat after all!

Breathes there a boy with soul so deadWho never on his blog has said,“You know what I think’s way way way fun?“Blasting aliens with a ray gun!”

…via video footage shot from the external boosters. Look in the video gallery at NASA’s Space Shuttle Multimedia page.

…is the subject of a new opera. Well, why not?

An privately built test module that could point the way toward inflatable orbital structures (such as space hotels for tourists) is now in orbit.

This year’s “winner” of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is Jim Guigli of Carmichael, CA. His winning entry: Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last burrito for …

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Great news today: my agent, Ethan Ellenberg, phoned this morning to let me know that DAW Books will be buying a second novel from me. It’s not a sequel to Lost in Translation, which they’re bringing out in mass-market paperback in October (although that remains a possibility for the future) but a brand-new stand-alone science …

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